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I am new to UI and HTML newsletters

I got stuck up with a problem. I have to display a rupee symbol in HTML newsletter (₹). But not all mail clients, especially outlook 2007 support unicode standard 6.0. Is there a way to display Rs (₨) instead of the previous, if it is not supported. (In short, a way to find, if a symbol is (supported) displayed or not. If not, display an alt symbol)

I cannot use an Image

Thanks in advance

EDITED:

I just found a quick fix at Displaying the Indian currency symbol on a website. use र instead of ₹ Though it is not exact, it works

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With HTML alone you can't detect a user agent/operating system and to chose what content to display. You'll need JavaScript.

Example using the navigator object to detect client's browser

<script type="text/javascript">
if (/A_Specific_Agent_Name[\/\s](\d+\.\d+)/.test(navigator.userAgent))
    document.write("Your browser/mail client can display &#8377;")
else
    document.write(Your browser/mail client can display Rs")
</script>

More details here and here. Hope it helps.

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Is not it (rupee symbol) present in UTF? Or do your clients not support UTF???

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  • In outlook 2007, if a mail is received in utf-8, I always need to change the encoding setting to something different in Outlook 2007, and then change it back to utf-8 in order to be able to see the Swedish Ã¥, ä and ö characters. – SRavuri Sep 18 '12 at 11:32
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Don't know if Outlook 2007 supports webfonts, but if it does, I suggest you use a font of your own to display that symbol. That way you don't change encodings, just use a font with a glyph for &#8377;.

Some online free fonts from Google: http://www.google.com/webfonts

If you need to include all resources of HTML into the mail you probably know that this is posible assigning a Context-ID to the attachment (it's a header you assign to the body part) and using the Context-ID URL like this: <img src="cid:what_you_put_in_the_header">

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